Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-17
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A Western Cyclone Drives People to
Take Refuge in Their Cellars.
SUICIDE or ROBERT W. sATswoo0, SON
or REV. ROBERT eATtWooo.
jim Bates. the Slayer Of Ten gs-, Shot
and Killed.
TIE COAL DOCK CT The NEW YORK
AND CENTRAL RAILRoD BURNED.
TIE inte.stats c:mmerce Commission
Eavs Their Hands Full.
the DENVER l. RIO eaARDE Road AP'
PIoaTs A NEW PRESIDENT.
ESPECIAL TO THE sEHTISEL.l
A wESTERN CYCLONE.
Ii DemoIished Everything In Its
Course.

Course.
ST. GAINESVILLE, o., April 16.-The
storm at 3:15 P. NJ. appeared to be
travelling from the west, and a tunnel
shaped mass of cloud, resembling In
appearance dense black smoke. The
cone was downward, and could be
plainly tracked over its course by de-
struction. 1t LETT houses demolished,
trees snapped off like pipe stems,
horses and cattle Frustrated and car
ried bodily hundreds of yards by the
gale. The sky was darkened with
clouds of flying debris. The storm
and its effects showed all the distin-
gushing characteristics of a western
cyclone. 1t first struck two new brick
houses belonging to Colonel Paxton
| and Judge Cochran, west of town, and
a frame house belonging to a man
named Coleman. All three were COM
pletely demolished, and the furniture
| and portions OF the roof and walls
scattered along the track OF the cyclone
| clean to the end of the town, a mile
| distant. A large mansion on the cor
ner of Market and Main streets was
| cut off clean at the second floor, and
the walls and roof scattered in frag-
merts. The First National Bank
| block, and B. Thrall & Sons dry goods
| store, was almost swept from their
| sites, only a portion of the lower walls
| being left standing. The dwellings
and business blocks of J. H. Patter-
son, druggist; George Jepson, grocer,
and James Patterson, dry goods, had
the upper walls and roofs swept off,
| and the lower part of the houses were
badly damaged by falling bricks and
timbers. The National Hotel, Mrs.
| Evans large residence, and probably
forty other houses, were less seriously
| damaged. No casulties to persons are
reported, the fun~nel-shaped cloud hav-
ing been seer approaching in time for
families to take refuge in the cellars.
| Horses hitched on street we're
blown about like chaff, and vehicles
demolished. A scantling sailed through
| the air for a mile, and cut as clean a
hole in two walls of a brick house as a
cannon-ball would. Shingles were
driven through weather boarding like
arrows. James F. Anderson, of Bel
laire, had just hitched his buggy in
the street, when some one shouted a
warning to him, and he clutched a tel
egraph pole which snapped off just
above his head. Hon. 9. Danford was
sitting in his lower office, when an
entire chimney crushed through the
ceiling and floor, leaving him un-
harmed. At Barton's Station, four
miles north, a new brick house was
leveled to the ground. At Pasco, five
miles west of this city, on the National
road, the brick house of A. Hinkle
was demolished, and he badly hurt.
| Large tracts of wood between there
and st. Clairsville have not a tree I'M
injured, while most OF them are fiat
on the ground. The town of Bridge
port, Just across the river, escaped, as
| did Wheeling, but a funeral vas in the
| cemetery on a hill top at the time, and
carriages were blown over and carried
| against tombstones, swapping them off
as they blew I've them. Martins
Ferry, on the opposite side of the
river, at the north end of town, suf-
fered even more seriously than st.
Clairsville. Here a broad valley gave
direction to the destroying gale, which
licked up forest and farm houses, and
scattered fences in its path down the
hollow, widening out as it struck the
little city, and scattering destruction
everywhere. The Elston glass works
had M brick building blown down.
On the hil the residence of j. H.
Drennon, editcr of the News, was so
badly used up that not one brick was
left on another. l.. b. Hailey's fine
concrete residence was also leveled to
the ground. Henry Hollings' eight
houses, barns and sheds were all de-
stroyed. In the town proper rs to 100
houses were more or less damaged.
heath OF Young Lakewood.
NORFOLK, Va, April 16.-When the
stateroom of the steamer Virginia,
from Baltimore to Norfolk, occupied
last night by Robert W. Gatewood,
was opened this morning, his body
was found in bed with a pistol ball in
his brain. The evidence before the
Coroner's jury showed that he COM
suicide. Young Gatewood was
a son OF Rev. Robert Gatewood of this
city, and was % years OF age. He
was a graduate from Annapolis with
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